This seminar is designed for people in construction, industry and government who are involved in building construction and maintenance and repair programs. This also design for who are involved in preparing maintenance document package and diagnosis the reasons of failure and also the engineers who define and choose the methods of repair.

Day-1

• Conventional Concrete Materials Limitations and Problems
• Concrete quality control
• Concrete design mix
• High Strength Concrete and High Performance Concrete
• Special Constituent materials and Admixtures
• Construction Practices for Concrete in the Gulf area
• Specifics of Gulf Environment
• Definition of hot weather for concreting processes
• Precautions for different concreting operations in the hot weather of Gulf region
• Standard Test Methods for Non-Conventional Concretes and Reinforcement

Day-2

• High Strength Concrete: General
• Importance and Economy
• Durability Improvement
• Structural Improvement
• High Strength Concrete: Materials
• Slag (GGBS), Fly Ash, and Silica fume
• High Strength Concrete: Production
• Batching and Mixing High Strength Concrete
• Placing and Compacting High Strength Concrete
• Corrosion phenomena in steel bars
• Chloride cause corrosion
• Carbonation process

Day-3

• Standard test methods for fresh and Hardened Special concretes
• Standard specifications for epoxy coated bars
• Standard test methods for properties of FRP rods
• Technical Specifications for Concrete and Reinforcement
• Sample concrete and reinforcement specifications
• Protecting steel reinforcement from corrosion by advanced materials
• Non-Traditional Types of Reinforcement Used in Concrete Structures
• Galvanized and epoxy coated bars
• Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) reinforcement for concrete
• Anodic inhibitor
• Cathodic protection system

Day -4

• Evaluating the existing structure
• Define repair procedure
• Convention repair methods to slab and beam
• Foundation repair by new materials
• Using steel section to repair Latex Modified Concrete:
• Standard Specifications and Guides
• Latex Modified Concrete: Production
• Mix Proportioning
• Mixing and Placing
• Finishing and Curing
• Latex Modified Concrete: Properties and Applications
• Applications and Recent Development

Day -5

• Repair technique by using CFRP
• Design of the CFRP philosophy
• Selecting the reasonable materials.
• Execution of the CFRP
• Advanced programs for inspection and repair

RECTUS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration